Feeling and Dreaming

"I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"
- Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

I'm Philippa, 24, and I'm from London.

~ Tuesday, November 15 ~

“ How do you commemorate a year?
A paper anniversary, but we are
the words written down, not the paper.

— David Levithan, the realm of possibility

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~ Friday, September 30 ~

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A Cue from Nature

Run outside during a thunderstorm
That downpour, that conquered hesitation, that exhilaration
That’s what unlonely is like

— David Levithan, the realm of possibility

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~ Monday, September 19 ~

David Levithan, the realm of possibility

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~ Friday, September 16 ~

“ There are tears inside her that nobody can stop.
But there are so many other things. I could show them to her.
That there’s more to life than more. And there’s more to life than less.

— David Levithan, the realm of possibility

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~ Monday, September 12 ~

David Levithan, the realm of possibility

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~ Wednesday, May 11 ~

I knew roughly what my next reads would be, until I saw my lovely Ava at the weekend and we swapped books. These are the amazing ones she lent me. And now my reading landscape looks very different.

Tags: books borrowed books dash & lily's book of dares david levithan i wanted to put a comma between the two will graysons but that would have separated the tag john green skippy dies the hunger games which would have been sad will grayson will grayson lit
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~ Saturday, March 12 ~

“ Juxtaposition,n.
It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can’t even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It’s simply a matter of is and is no longer.

— David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary

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~ Sunday, February 27 ~

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Commonplace, adj.

It swings both ways, really.
I’ll see your hat on the table and I’ll feel such longing for you, even if you’re only in the other room. If I know you aren’t looking, I’ll hold the green wool up to my face, inhale that echo of your shampoo and the cold air from outside.
But then I’ll walk into the bathroom and find you’ve forgotten to put the cap on the toothpaste again, and it will be this splinter that I just keep stepping on.

— David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary

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~ Friday, February 11 ~

This arrived this morning but I can’t read it because my (lovely) professor set an Anthony Trollope book for Monday and it is not going well. The Lover’s Dictionary is just sitting on its newly designated shelf space and taunting me with its amazingness.

In other news: Klosterman hit a low with his chapter on Billy Joel, but is continuing to make me laugh out loud, often on public transport.

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